al-jazeera. every. the fuel shortage in venezuela threatening new tension with the us 5 iranian oil tankers are just days away from arriving in the latin american nation. clubs are robbing you watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes millions. millions without power and shelters running out of room as a powerful psycho smashes into bangladesh and eastern india. also brazil records

its highest number of daily coronavirus cases and it spans the use of an anti malaria drug despite warnings about the health risks. and israel's urge to scrap this and exception plans of the un's envoy to the middle east warns a project will threaten the 2 state solution and regional peace. but into the program a new standoff could be brewing between the united states iran and venezuela over a shipment of millions of dollars worth of fuel 5 iranian oil tankers could be just days away from arriving in venezuela in a bid to ease fuel shortages there both countries are sanctioned by the u.s. and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment will venezuela says its military will escort the tankers as soon as they enter. it's territory and as well as own oil industry collapse

because of underinvestment and iran's ambassador to the country says they're expanding trade to help get venezuela back on track. those 5 ships are bringing gasoline regarding the technical support for the reactivation of the refinery what the venezuelan government asked us for in the past weeks was to bring input materials catalysts which iran brought through the plains and again we see the falsification of news by us secretary of state might pompei or they wanted to question the origin of those flights those flights were entirely commercial flights bringing in material that a country needs to reactivate its refinery well obviously came to my can in a few moments who's in washington d.c. but 1st let's cross over to john holdren who's in mexico city just let's go back the backdrop when really where these tankers of these started from in iran and where they are right now. right now there's sort of strung out across

the atlantic the 1st one colleagues in venezuela that are sort of plotting their routes across the ocean so the 1st one could arrive by saturday or sunday and then the one that's at the back of this sort of line of tankers could take a couple of weeks even to arrive now going back further where did this all start and it basically started because the u.s. has said to other countries listen if you're doing business with venezuela you can't do business with us it's basically called secondary sanctions and that means that other countries including companies from russia stock tour of drop the amount of business that they do with venezuela now been this way that despite being the country with the biggest or reserves in the world has struggled to convert that into gas into gasoline and that's because of years of mismanagement so it's now costing around to see where it can get that gasoline from and since the u.s. has been cracking down on other countries that have wanted to do deals with it it's

got to iran which has been an ally of venezuela for quite some time now iran is also in a position as you mentioned that it's got sanctions against it from the united states or it hasn't really got a lot to lose neither country they're both sort of pariahs in the in the eyes of the united states so coming together to do this deal now what's been reported is that in a pro a lot of gold bars went out from venezuela woods iran and now we seem to be seeing what may be coming back the other way gasoline to help out the country now since these countries are already under sanctions from the united states the question now is what can the u.s. actually do short of intervening physically in stopping these tankers from get them getting to venezuela john holmes for the latest thanks very much. let's cross over to my canonize washington d.c. and mike obviously that the u.s. administration and president trump has been ramping up the pressure on caracas. and

they will be keeping a very close eye on what's going on certainly across the atlantic. indeed yes there's been no formal statement from the white house as yet in recent days but to several sources within the administration of told various news agencies that yes. administration is considering what measures it will take in the light of these attackers approaching venezuela and now the u.s. special envoy for iran brian who has spoken out to a degree to al-jazeera he's actually trying to appears to ease the situation he says that the u.s. will follow international law it has no military exercises planned in that particular region he says as well though that the u.s. is considering additional sanctions and possible legal action against iran for breaking the sanctions against venezuela as he put it one must know too that there

is a limited u.s. presence in those waters so it's mainly coast guard and that has to do with anti drug operations which are being run on a continual basis but certainly it would appear at this stage that the administration given the silence official silence from state department is actually trying to play this in a way that it is not going to give anything away until it actually takes action there has been a marked silence in recent days since those tankers left the iranian ports for been as well and there has been no mark silence in terms of that administration that has previously been very strong very loud about what it sees as any breaking of sanctions that it has imposed but certainly as you say this is being built quite watched very closely by the u.s. government there is concern from various officials that not to take action with such a public flouting of u.s. imposed sanctions could be interpreted as

a sign of weakness something that the trumpet ministration is really unwilling to be associated with in any form like thanks for the update my kind of in washington d.c. for us. let's take you to other top story and that's in asia where indian authorities say the destruction from. that battered the east is more worrying than corona virus more than 600000 people in west bengal and odisha have been evacuated the storm which is blamed for 3 deaths in india has been now downgraded elizabeth random has more from new delhi. india's national disaster response force warn people in the state of west bengal ahead of cycler on making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are proving trees. more than half a 1000000 people have been evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal and another 150000 to the state of disarray bomb but there is

a vacuum waiting around 2000000 people. many people have come to the shelters since morning because the rivers banks have broken down here most of the houses aren't made of concrete and bricks people here live in basic structures as of mud. the densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclers bottom urgency authorities they will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread to the cove on a virus. or to door disaster some law gets out his we are dealing with 2 disasters for the 1st time the 1st disaster is ongoing covered $1000.00 which you all know about and during this outbreak another disaster is now in front of us which is in the form of a cycle on. emergency shelters only being used at half capacity. or. that starting is many and so this for poor as you know.

this is also running our system. one day. while east india and bangor they show in the storm's path heavy rain and flooding farm pond killed 2 people in sri lanka. those living in coastal areas have been warned against leaving their homes until the sideline passes elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. the heavy rain has been battering cox's bazar in bangladesh which is home to more than a 1000000 refugees residents have been urgently working to keep the rain from flooding their homes at the world's largest refugee camps they've been living there since fleeing military crackdown in myanmar in 2017 well hundreds more had been evacuated from the flood prone in boston char island before the storm. brazil has overtaken the united kingdom becoming the country with the 3rd highest

number of coronavirus cases in the world the health ministry is expanding use of the drug hydroxy chloroquine as a treatment the move is being backed by president dr paul sonora despite doubts over its safety and effectiveness brazil recorded its highest daily death toll on cheese date with more than 1100 think tallaght. we're losing the battle against the virus that's the reality the virus at this moment is winning the war these days coming up the holidays i don't see them as holidays but i see them as battle days the most important days in the fight against the virus gustavo rubio is the founder of the brazilian report an online magazine joins me now via skype from san paolo good to have you with us live on al-jazeera just as an overview can you tell us what the situation is like in one of brazil's largest cities. thanks for having me well 'd things are spiraling out of control

we're still having high numbers of new infections and new deaths every day so palmer is by far the lead there in brazil in terms of new of of of the infections and deaths but it's also related to the fact that the metropolitan region of so ball a concentrates 10 percent of the prison about collation so that's the worst should be expected in terms of. confirmed cases and that per 1000000 people amazonian states and states in the worth the switch over the 2 poorest regions of brazil we are less equipped with health care facilities those are the areas where the outbreak is worse but the problem with some poll is that social isolation rates are very low consistently below 50 percent of people or stay home and experts warn that that could lead us to a situation where we don't have a peak in so part of that ready plateau with the continues high number of new cases

and new deaths for a long period of time you just mentioned the 50 percent of people are staying at home what's the reason for that is it because they don't believe that is a danger out there or that there is a necessity for them to leave. their abode where they live because they have to go out to either go shopping or go to work. both cases are happening because part of the population that supports your boss or the is belittling the intensity of it and the severity of this outbreak but yet like you said a lot of people must go out and earn their money every single day because brazil has a very informal economy and a lot of people depend only on themselves to make ends meet and that's where the government should step in africa ways for people to stay home even. provide them with some relief money but actions have been. very

have not been enough and the few actions that the government has carried out have had a lot of glitches in terms of emergency payments that were delayed so people just feel the need to go out or and or money evers every day since this pandemic began and we've been reporting globally about the fact that even rich countries are having a real problem in coping with the just the the volume of people who are infected or need hospital treatment what is that situation like you know across brazil are hospitals able to cope are there enough beds. in many states the health care network has already collapsed or is very close to collapsing in some polls metropolitan region we are all around 90 percent of that are occupied we have 2 very distinct situations when we look at the public health care

network and the private one private facilities have much more. intensive care beds per 1000000 people there. the public system. so a lot of regions in brazil states and municipalities are renting those are paying private hospitals for the right to use their facilities as well to cope with the man's right now. again seeing different types of pictures because star of the way the president is getting his message across in terms of belittling what covert 19 is all about and that he banging the drum in support of hydroxy chloroquine. over the last 24 hours what's your general sense about that response either in the media or in the public domain what are people saying to you about what they believe is happening in their country and what they think is. accurate and what is

inaccurate when it comes to medical advice. well the problem. is that people don't necessarily know who they can trust because the president says one thing the health ministry said another thing so the president has created an environment in brazil where people just don't know what is true and what is false we have seen a study that was published today that shows for instance that you tube channels with misinformation called the 19 are watched over 3 times more than reliable sources so that's another reason for the fact that compliance with social isolation is so moving the country because we're just not getting information from reliable sources in the fortunately in our case the federal government or the president himself has not been a reliable source because like you mentioned earlier there is absolutely no

evidence that working is effective some studies in brazil and in the us suggest that. that rates are actually higher among some patients that take lorcan so the jury's still out on the drug and the president is selling it like it's a possible cure for the 90 it's very good to get your insights a jewel thoughts gustavo had a from the brazilian report thanks so much for joining us from. thank you. well still ahead here on al-jazeera putting up a regional front why mozambique is calling on its neighbors for help and lebanon's banks and government play the blame game as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in history those stories after the break.

hello there's rain developing in southern china significant rain but it's not heading towards japan japan is just sitting with a circulation in the sea of japan itself which takes some back or breeze across the sea to the korean peninsula where it's bright and breezy sunny 17 in tokyo and it could well be cloudy of a good part of honshu bit disappointing really a bit of rain running through beijing as it disappears attempts will start to rise again and this rain this heavy will drift offshore through hong kong during friday's to line takes it through taiwan which does mean of course who hands are rather warm $32.00 in hong kong is rather sticky 29 now if you had sat was the active weather for thunderstorms is going to be in the southern philippines around still away sea and maybe job role but beyond that the circulation i have in the open mortar rest of sumatra is south the equator is the circulation is the other

direction for an area of low pressure and it will stay over the water but these are pretty big thunderstorms in the southern philippines that could be a flash flood thing. how his own home having made landfall is a big area of cloud still to drop a lot of rain through northern bangladesh and eventually northern india and bhutan and the winds to south still blowing will lessen. but. it's a unique form of protest by a palestinian artist using a symbol of national identity to create postage and passport stamps. but as for some burglaries are not afraid of a new life that can fly anywhere sending a message of resistance about the arab israeli conflict a loss of positive come to palestine. palestine sunbonnet a stamp of defiance on al-jazeera.

the arab. welcome back you're watching others are with me said the romney reminder of our top stories but as well as says its military will escort 5 iranian tankers bringing oil to ease years of shortages both countries are sanctioned by the u.s. and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment millions of people in bangladesh and eastern india have fled the coastline after the strongest sidetone in decades made landfall cycle on born as that of the region destroying homes and cutting power. brazil now has the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world with more than 291000 the

government is expanding the use of an empty malaria drug to treat covert 19 despite little evidence that it works. now the un special middle east envoy has called on israel to abandon threats to annex parts of the occupied west bank prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been given doubletons blessing to press on but the security council was told it could breach international law our diplomatic editor james bays has more many observers have predicted that prime minister netanyahu threat to annex parts of the west bank was simply an election ploy back in office he now says he'll actually do it and that scott many the united nations worried u.n. special coordinator nicholai mad north briefing the security council restated the un's long held position that annexation would be a serious breach of international law by israel derailing a 2 state solution but his response to palestinian president mahmoud abbas his

decision to withdraw from all previous agreements and stop cooperation with israel was perhaps more surprising romish the only and very frowned. whatever aren't usually assessments you know reaction to this really threat that exists maybe it is certainly one thing it is a desperate cry for help it is a call for immediate action it is a cry for help from a generation of leaders that invest it their life in building institutions and preparing the state for over a quarter of a century in the virtual session on one point there was near a green any i think sation of any parts of the west bank including of settlements all only would represent a violation of international law one by one security council members urged israel not to pursue a policy of annexation except for one the emission of such

a statement by the us ambassador kelly craft was telling she though left it to her boss in washington d.c. the secretary of state to criticize the palestinian president but i regret that he has decided to abrogate these agreements we laid out a very clear vision for how peace could be brought we asked simply for this we asked the israelis and the palestinians to agree that that would be the basis for negotiations between the israelis have accepted that the palestinians have continued to refuse to just simply sit down and enter into goshen based on president terms a vision for peace there so where the peace efforts go now the so-called core tat has almost been forgotten for the last couple of years it consists of the european union the u.n. russia and the united states the united nations believe it now has the best chance of reviving diplomacy james plays al-jazeera at the united nations. now the

polls have closed in burundi's presidential and general election has been marred by reports of widespread political violence rights abuses and allegations of election fraud and cauldrons easer is stepping down after 15 years in power the government allowed the election to go ahead despite critics saying it failed to prevent the spread of the corona virus will stay on the continent mozambique is calling on its neighbors in southern africa for help to combat armed groups attacks by isolating fighters on villages and government buildings have been on the rise for the past 3 years the problem has been the focus of a regional security meeting in zimbabwe as her room attacks are reports. as fighting in the northern province of kabul intensifies mozambique's president is asking other leaders in southern africa for help. 2 the problem wolf was on beach forums and verbal form removed. everywhere and this is

why for a good target. we believe that we together have to work hard to make sure that our units peaceful militias have been raiding villages and government buildings for the past 3 years mozambique's government says fighters affiliated to eisele operating in parts of capital got a problem you know. that's led to speculation that some southern african leaders could send in troops to help wasn't because government to stop the fight is infiltrating neighboring countries and if indeed it is assumed the islamic state 11 of their wild models of operation mystics unlike their territory and then to take over much more space and much territory is still it definitely whatever the impact on the in firstly the moment on the populations in tanzania and in mozambique but then it with their greater port potential for spillover effect in the rest of the region we have porous borders it's you know between zimbabwe and mozambique south

african muslims i'm allowed in mozambique and these really no such security guarantees that this will not overflow into the neighboring states over the years some southern african countries intervene militarily in the democratic republic of congo lisicki and mozambique the reasons given what to bring peace and stability to the region. regional leaders haven't confirmed or denied reports they're planning to send troops into mozambique. the long term effects of any subject intervention in in was a link especially with the military intervention is that obviously in. people start asking is it really necessary to intervene was on the rise mozambique and able to do it by itself but said it has a history of assisting is our military or in terms of liberation struggle solidarity. human rights workers say what even leaders decide that plaid must include the protection of civilians thousands of them have been forced from their homes by the fighting. al jazeera. france and giggling is

a senior program manager for the rosa luxemburg a shift to political foundation he says the escalation in attacks is worrying the situation is very serious. each and every day and the fact that mozambique and government is now approached is subject to neighbors like i mean. and. it's also in been reported that mozambique is also approach south africa so this shows that it's a very important and it's a very big challenge for them for the country it's difficult to actually establish one single reason for the problem it's the complexity of that issue is happening it has to do with that story graphic political and also now with the modernization and. issues that the mozambique is now

observing you know that the country there's a now. investments going into that area that this is now it is it isn't a phenomenon but you have to do get east of the country and to look at all those different dynamics together to be able to relate to the conflict. level's leaders are struggling to find solutions to the unprecedented economic crisis and stalled reforms are affecting its aid talks with the international monetary fund now lebanon's banking association has rejected the government's 5 year rescue plan putting forward its own proposal instead of holder has more from beirut. protesters have set fire to banks in months of anger over informal capital controls that prevent depositors from accessing their savings their devalued by the day but banks say they are not to blame they lent money to the state which hasn't been repaid bankers say they are fighting for survival as

a government plan to rescue the economy is focused on restructuring the banking sector instead of restructuring the debt they want to. bank up every bank and then they deposit. come on this bank a little and for that your deposit the banking sector are practical reasonable people are willing to negotiate to extend their maturity date. some see the government's plan as a ploy to change the country's free market system but the government accuses the banks of financial engineering that brought them high profits each side is blaming the other for driving lebanon into financial turmoil. there are significant differences in the estimated losses presented by the government the banks and economic bodies a committee has been formed to look into this so the burden can be fairly shared. there is a lack of consensus about who should bear the losses which is weakening lebanon's

position as it seeks an international bailout foreign donors have told the 11 on the only way it can get financial assistance is through the eye of the i.m.f. insists on reforms which successive governments repeatedly promised to implement in the past prime minister has says his government is committed but it is yet to take a 1st step organizations that work for political reform and good governance say the political class the power behind the government hasn't shown a willingness to reform this political class eggs or sizes its power 1st and foremost by controlling the judges if you free the judges and there are some fabulous one of the country and you will allow them to apply the rule of law that the trust of the citizens and its government will be way different so this is for instance one of the structural reform that we are asking for for a very long time and that is not moving along other say lebanon is collapsing as

foreign currency reserves needed to import food fuel and medicine are drying up. beirut. now hundreds of migrant children have been deported from the u.s. using a law allow joining the pandemic figures from the new york times reveal more than 900 young migrants were deported between march and april previously unaccompanied minors were provided with shelter and an opportunity to go through the asylum process but the trumpet ministration in a vote in 1994 law which allows migration to be blocked in order to stop the disease from spreading. your child is there with me as a whole romney a reminder of our top stories that as waiter says its military will escort 5 iranian tankers bringing oil to ease years of shortages both countries are sanctioned by the u.s.

and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment holeman is monitoring developments from mexico city it's been reported since april that tons of venezuelan gold was leaving the country by plane and going towards iran so now the other way round that oil that venezuela desperately needs despite having the biggest oil reserves in the in the world quite a lot of mismanagement of that oil industry over the years and then sanctions after that from the u.s. has brought them to the point where they don't actually have 3 any gasoline or they don't have as much gasoline as they need at the moment hence the need to bring it in from iran so that's where the 2 countries of sort of coincided in their mutual sort of needs at the moment millions of people in bangladesh in eastern india who fled the coast after the strongest cycle in decades made landfall cyclon born has battered the region destroying homes and downing power lines. brazil has the highest number of credit virus cases in the world with more than 291000 the

government is expanding use of the anti malaria drugs to treat covert 19 despite a lack of evidence that it works. and the un's special middle east envoy has called on israel to abandon threats to and its parts of the occupied west bank under a deal with the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin a mix in palestinian land as soon as july but the security council was told this breach it would be a breach of international law and international war crimes prosecutors of us to call to transfer everyone to genocide suspected to the un custody after he was trying down in paris 84 year old phyllis. appeared in a french court accused of financing green suit took part in the killings in 1904 those were the headlines inside story with bernard smith is next.

is the world health organization on life support its response to the coronavirus is to be scrutinized by a number states with calls for change a growing louder are there lessons to learn for the next. this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm byrne it's a coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest challenges the world health organization has ever faced it's also receiving.